Quotes by Banishment Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it. Henry Beston banishment vulgar night To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become. John Donne banishment home travel And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! William Shakespeare banishment why-not self